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Timepass: The Memoirs of Protima Bedi

In 1974, pictures appeared in magazines and newspapers of Protima Bedi streaking down a road in the centre of Bombay in broad daylight. There was immediate uproar. The incident was, in many ways, the culmination of a life of youthful rebellion and brash sexuality that Protima, the scandalous model and wife of the rising star of Bollywood, Kabir Bedi, had lived ever since she ran away from home to live ýin siný. Barely four years later, the glamorous flower child had reinvented herself as an accomplished classical dancer, a devotee of Goddess Kali, and chosen the sari over slit skirts and halter-necks. Shortly before her death in 1998, she had shaved her head and decided on a monkýs life. She died in August 1998, in a landslide in the Himalayas while on a pilgrimage to Kailash Mansarovar, leaving behind her most lasting achievementýa flourishing dance village, Nrityagram, where students continue to learn the classical dance styles of India.Few lives have been more eventful and controversial than Protima Bediýs, and Timepass, derived fro

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Protima Bedi

Indian model and Odissi exponent

Protima Gauri Bedi^[2]^[3] (12 October 1948 – 18 August 1998)^[4] was an Indian model turned Odissi exponent. In 1990, she established Nrityagram, a dance school in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Early life

Protima was born in Delhi on 12 October 1948,^[5] the second of four children, three daughters, and a son. Her father was Laxmichand Gupta, a trader belonging to a business family from the Karnal district, Haryana, and her mother Reba, was of Bengali by origin.^[1]

In 1953, her family moved to Goa, and later, in 1957, they moved to Mumbai. At the age of nine, she was sent to stay at her aunt's home in a village in the Karnal district for a while, where she studied in a local school. On her return, she was sent to Kimmins High School, Panchgani, where she received her early education. She graduated from St. Xavier's College, Bombay (1965–67).^[5]

Career

Modeling career

By the late 1960s, she started working as a model. In 1974, she came into the n